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For the current sale, there is not nearly as many woods available compared to Thror. With only 3 days left, I am not sure what to do.
Indeed! The Thekk measurements look great. Thanks for that Eric
For the current sale, there is not nearly as many woods available compared to Thror. With only 3 days left, I am not sure what to do.
How is the clamping force on thekk?
Hi everyone, will different type of wood effect the sound signature? I'm looking to buy Magni, but not sure what type of wood to choose. Limited edition looks amazing too. Are the woods mixed only for aesthetic purposes? Thanks!
Good morning, everyone.
Hi Andrew.
If I were you, I wouldn't rely too much (or not completely) on the measurement curves on the RAA site.
The RAA measurement curves are indeed questionable (in addition to their obvious measurement artifacts at 5.5 KHz (peak) and 8.5-9 KHz (trough), not to mention that the artificial measurement head resonates a maximum ...); as proof: the Odin is given by the manufacturer for a sensitivity of 104 dB/mW, while the Thekk and Thror are an identical sensitivity about 100 dB/mW. The impedance of these three headphones is identical: 42 Ohm +/- 5%.
At the RAA measurement site, the average sensitivity of the Odin (between 100 Hz and 10 KHz) is measured at 110.5 dB/V; that of the Thror is measured at 109 dB/V and that of the Thekk is measured at 111.7 dB/V (i.e. 2.7 dB more than the Thror).
Now, when listening these headphones to my amp, the average sensitivity of the Thror and Thekk seem identical (nb: I'm listening to both of these headphones at the same sound volume, without modifying the volume knob position of the amp), whereas with the Odin, I am obliged to reduce the position of the volume knob of the amp by at least 3 dB to have a listening level comparable to that of the Thror and Thekk.
Otherwise, still listening, the headphones giving the most mid bass is the Odin, followed by the Thekk and then the Thror.
Still listening, the headphones giving the most sub-bass is the Thror, followed by little Thekk and further from the Odin.
The headphones with the most treble (around 6 KHz) are the Odin (granular treble), followed by the Thror and the Thekk (treble more fine).
The most colourful headphones (voice and instruments) is the Odin, followed by the Thekk and Thror (the most "neutral").
The headphones give the least coloration to the voices, in the sense that they sound the most fair (true) and natural, without accentuating the frequencies (as at 3.5 KHz for the Thror) (or dig them too much, as at 1.8 KHz for the Odin)), it's the Thekk, followed by the Thror (fairly true timbres, but a bit "high-perched", lacking a bit of body and warmth), then the Odin (a bit muffled, recessed voice and peculiar timbres, and in the end, the least fair).
The headphones that best reproduce the cello (both for the ratio of the body sound (body) to the strings sound) and for the naturalness of the timbres and also for the aeration) is the Thekk.
The two most open and airy headphones (the least confined and frontal) giving the most beautiful sound scene, and by far (compared to the Odin), are the Thekk and the Thror, but with two different tonalities (warmer, but not dark for the Thekk ; colder and leaner (with less matter and fullness) with the Thror).
Otherwise, the three headphones "faithfully" reproduce the whistles (the ssss) when they exist in the recording, both the Odin (around 6 KHz) and the Thekk and Thror (around 8.5-9 KHz), but in a way, these whistles are finer (less granular) with the Thekk and the Thror (compared to the Odin), narrower and more punctual.
Could I ask how much sonic differences there are between the Odin MK2 and the latest Odin Thridi? I heard some some manufacturers prefer this to the Thror or Thekk for evaluation of their headphone amplifiers.